Jeffrey Wernick

Jeffrey Wernick was a syndicated columnist and the author of Mafia: America's Longest-Running Soap Opera. In 1999, Wernick was featured on Channel Six News, on which he was asked to comment on the upcoming federal indictment of the Mafia. He mentioned that the indictments were sealed, but he said that Junior Soprano was the new boss of the DiMeo crime family after Jackie Aprile Sr.'s death, falling for Tony Soprano's ruse to make Junior the center of attention; he also incorrectly referred to the murdered Brendan Filone as an "associate" and "loyal soldier" of the family, angering Christopher Moltisanti, who knew that Filone was neither a "made member" of the family, nor would the family even consider him to be an "associate".